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[quote]ATTICA, N.Y. (AP) — Valentino Dixon's colored pencil drawings evoke carefree days on the links, dewy greens, open spaces, fresh air enlivened by flowers and crisply trimmed fairways.But the artist has never set foot on a golf course.
For 22 years, Dixon's world has been concrete floors and metal bars, fluorescent lights and tiny spaces.
It is nothing like what appears on paper as he runs rainbows of pencils down to nubs on blades of grass, reflective ponds, sweeping branches — all the while hoping that someday it will exist for him outside of his imagination.
Outside the walls of Attica...[/quote]
[URL]http://news.yahoo.com/convicted-ny-killers-golf-art-masks-caged-reality-164121386.html[/URL]
[quote]Dixon, now 43, knew trouble was brewing that night in 1991. But he said he was inside a store buying beer when he heard the shots that would send four victims to the hospital. Torriano Jackson was shot 27 times, and his older brother, Aaron, was among the wounded.
Out on bail with drug and weapons charges pending, Dixon went home and went to bed, he said, only to be arrested the next day.
"I wasn't nervous," he said. "I thought, 'The truth will come out.'"
But when investigators disregarded a confession by 18-year-old LaMarr Scott, saying it was coerced by Dixon's family, Dixon was on his way to trial and a sentence of 39 years to life. With no physical evidence, jurors in Dixon's trial relied on the testimony of three prosecution witnesses, Dixon said, and his own lawyer's refusal to call witnesses of his own. He's eligible for parole in 2030.[/quote]
Oh man...
What a fucked up justice system.
Remind me again why anyone is convicted of a crime with no evidence...?
[QUOTE=Superginger;40965853]Remind me again why anyone is convicted of a crime with no evidence...?[/QUOTE]
Because the justice system is fucked
'Outsider art' really is incredible. And when I say that, I'm talking about most of the time, not just on a few occasions.
What a fantastic artist!
[QUOTE=Superginger;40965853]Remind me again why anyone is convicted of a crime with no evidence...?[/QUOTE]
Quilty until proven innocent.
[QUOTE=Superginger;40965853]Remind me again why anyone is convicted of a crime with no evidence...?[/QUOTE]
Witnesses count for far more than they should.
[QUOTE=Akasori;40965912][B]Q[/B]uilty until proven innocent.[/QUOTE]
How did you manage that? The Q is halfway across the keyboard.
It's a shame people like this have to pay for shit they didn't do.
[QUOTE=A big fat ass;40965932]How did you manage that? The Q is halfway across the keyboard.
It's a shame people like this have to pay for shit they didn't do.[/QUOTE]
Oops, sorry.
Cuilty*
Anyone who has played Ace Attorney should know these kinds of cases are very common in the series. I guess they aren't that far from reality. :v:
They should probably look over the case again; then again, if it turns out he's been innocent for all those years, it'd make the justice system look bad, and I assume that the justice system doesn't want to look bad.
I dunno about much about the case, but even though appearances aren't as they seem, this guy doesn't seem like he performed the killings, even if he had charges pending. Also, I assume that since that Torriano Jackson guy got shot 27 times, the assailant used an automatic weapon, since I can't imagine someone shooting a guy so many times with a pistol that his magazine was emptied, decided to reload and continued shooting.
Also his art looks pretty neat.
Also also, the "guilty until proven innocent" attitude is a horrible thing that should probably be punished and discouraged. Pre-judgement is no substitute for proper investigation and actually doing one's job; one should never be so careless with the lives and livelihoods of sentient beings.
[QUOTE=ironman17;40965985]They should probably look over the case again; then again, if it turns out he's been innocent for all those years, it'd make the justice system look bad, and I assume that the justice system doesn't want to look bad.
[/QUOTE]
The American Justice System looks like a steaming pile of horse shit already from all the news articles about it, comparing it to the UK's or Australia's justice system is really depressing
America needs some major reforms
We'ves had people locked up for multiple life-sentences then get set free here in the U.S, The sad part is the courts just reimburse them mistake money but forget the person has lost a part or half or sometimes more then half there life, and all they got was money they can't even spend on there life.
Sad.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;40966046]The American Justice System looks like a steaming pile of horse shit already from all the news articles about it, comparing it to the UK's or Australia's justice system is really depressing
America needs some major reforms[/QUOTE]
America needs so many reforms in just about anything it makes people not believe it, idk I can't word this right. Like people can't take criticism.
Heck just look how you just got a box, people don't get that the first step towards fixing a problem is acknowledging it exists
[QUOTE=The Baconator;40966102]America needs so many reforms in just about anything it makes people not believe it, idk I can't word this right. Like people can't take criticism.
Heck just look how you just got a box, people don't get that the first step towards fixing a problem is acknowledging it exists[/QUOTE]
No, people don't make the mistake of thinking the only solution to a problem is to assume everything is fundamentally broken. Like it or not, the basis for the justice system in this country is a solid one, and it does more or less work, the problem is people misuse it.
[QUOTE=Akasori;40965912][b]Quilty[/b] until proven innocent.[/QUOTE]
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?
Took me a few moments to realise that the first pic is a painted cell.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;40965924]Witnesses count for far more than they should.[/QUOTE]
Even though it's been proven in quite a number of studies that witnesses are practically useless at recalling information, and even worse can be lead to remember stuff which [I]never happened[/I].
Did the innocent until proven guilty ever even exist?
At least they let him paint his cell...
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;40966160]No, people don't make the mistake of thinking the only solution to a problem is to assume everything is fundamentally broken. Like it or not, the basis for the justice system in this country is a solid one, and it does more or less work, the problem is people misuse it.[/QUOTE]
i don't see how a system that demonstrably fails to work as intended half the time - especially when there's far more viable systems in just about every first-world country there is - can be said to "more or less work." you're all dead-set on scaring your population straight, it's honestly horrifying how apathetic you can get
[editline]10th June[/editline]
"it works fine, we just need to make everyone in our jails hate us some more and then everything will work out! honest!"
[QUOTE=Cone;40966944]i don't see how a system that demonstrably fails to work as intended half the time - especially when there's far more viable systems in just about every first-world country there is - can be said to "more or less work." you're all dead-set on scaring your population straight, it's honestly horrifying how apathetic you can get
[editline]10th June[/editline]
"it works fine, we just need to make everyone in our jails hate us some more and then everything will work out! honest!"[/QUOTE]
How much about the system do you actually know? And how about getting actual numbers instead of just pulling stats out your ass and putting words in my mouth. I never said it doesn't have flaws, but restarting from scratch is never the answer.
[editline]9th June 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;40966604]Even though it's been proven in quite a number of studies that witnesses are practically useless at recalling information, and even worse can be lead to remember stuff which [I]never happened[/I].[/QUOTE]
Yup, witnesses are the worst form of evidence you can ever have, but the fact is people want to trust other people, so they'll often buy witness testimonies regardless of evidence.
[QUOTE=Akasori;40965941]Anyone who has played Ace Attorney should know these kinds of cases are very common in the series. I guess they aren't that far from reality. :v:[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I was actually getting that vibe from this (and a bit of a Ghost Trick vibe too, if you know what I'm talking about).
[QUOTE=Akasori;40965941]Oops, sorry.
Cuilty*
Anyone who has played Ace Attorney should know these kinds of cases are very common in the series. I guess they aren't that far from reality. :v:[/QUOTE]
Phoenix Wright is actually a huge criticism against the Japanese justice system, which is orders worse than the USA's. The idea of a defense attorney actually winning is an alien concept over there. That's why Phoenix is considered so good.
[url]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_253/7530-Phoenix-Wrights-Objection[/url]
I would not want to sleep in a room with a giant portrait of Disney characters looking at me.
[QUOTE=A big fat ass;40965932]How did you manage that? The Q is halfway across the keyboard.
It's a shame people like this have to pay for shit they didn't do.[/QUOTE]
Am I the only one who's seen 'Let's go to Prison'?
[QUOTE=The Baconator;40966102]America needs so many reforms in just about anything it makes people not believe it, idk I can't word this right. Like people can't take criticism.
Heck just look how you just got a box, people don't get that the first step towards fixing a problem is acknowledging it exists[/QUOTE]
shut up AMERICA is perfect!!!!!!
[QUOTE=Akasori;40965941]Oops, sorry.
Cuilty*
Anyone who has played Ace Attorney should know these kinds of cases are very common in the series. I guess they aren't that far from reality. :v:[/QUOTE]
Keep in mind, that this is partially endemic to the US justice system as well. You have a jury composed of everymen generally with no legal education and no actual training to weight in on various pieces of evidence from witness accounts to factual stuff.
Plus they don't sit in front of a court that often so don't get enough of an overview either.
The system has a lot of positives, but I personally really detest everyman people juries. In part because of how politically abuseable they have been in the past in some European nations.
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;40966568]Took me a few moments to realise that the first pic is a painted cell.[/QUOTE]
So you're telling me mickey, donald, pluto, minnie, daisy and goofy aren't his actual cellmates?
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